— 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀；𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆
— 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝗋𝖾𝖾：𝗅𝖾𝗍 𝖻𝗒𝗀𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗌 𝖻𝖾 𝖻𝗒𝗀𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗌

𝗗𝗼𝗶𝗻' 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲
𝖻𝗒：𝖫𝖺𝗇𝖺 𝖣𝖾𝗅 𝖱𝖾𝗒

"𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭，𝘪'𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭，𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺． 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭，𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘺，𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭，𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺．"

WHILE THE UMBRELLAS WERE SETTLING INTO THEIR NEW "HOME", the sparrows were training. All 7 sparrows were running on treadmills talking about the recent events that just took place in their home.

"The big one is strong but slow, possibly stupid. Some sort of... simian hybrid." Marcus evaluated while keeping a steady pace.

"Who took the little jumpy guy?" Sloane asked, seemingly curious about his whole debacle.

"Cleo and I, we just gave him a spanking and sent him to school." Jayme reminisced.

"Hey–oh!" Alphonso cheered, holding out a fist for Jayme to bump, which she did.

Christopher got his turn to speak, and Fei added along with his statement.

"The skinny one is their weak link." She pointed out.

"Unless hiding behind couches shouting, "Where's my daddy?" is his superpower." Ben teased and continued to say, "Enough post–gaming. They disrespected us, Marcus. We need to be out there finding these freaks and taking 'em out."

"Oh you mean like this." Marcus stated, turning the tv's channel to footage from the take down that just happened.

Stepping off of his treadmill, Marcus walked in front of his team members.

"Can someone explain how you got your asses handed to you in 30 seconds? Do you have any idea what would happen to our reputation if anyone had seen that?" He shouted.

"Why aren't you telling this to Gemini and Cleo, they were there as well." Ben worked up the never to say. "Matter of fact, why aren't they here right now?"

Jayme, Fei and Alphonso scuffed at Ben's statement.

Marcus walked up to Ben, "We all know that Gemini has a different method of training. And secondly, those two were the only ones who were able to withstand that girl's power. So if you want to throw Gemini or Cleo under the bus again I suggest you come up with a better tale." He spat, walking away.

"Now, we haven't faced decent enemies for years. This could be good for us, good for business. But only if we're smart with our next move." He reassured everyone.

Hearing a throat being cleared, Marcus turned to see Reginald walking in the training room.

"You summoned number one?" Reginald asked.

"Sit." He ordered the man, who was supposed to be his father.

Watching the old man sit down, he started. "You spent time with these people. What's your assessment?"

"Unimpressive, neanderthals on a day pass. Cried too much and showered too little. The only thing they lacked more than grit was any regard for one another." Reginald assessed.

"No loyalty, we can use that." Ben shared.

"Good, give a full report to Christopher." Marcus ordered.

And just as Reginald was about to leave, he thought he'd share one last piece of information.

"Still... I wouldn't underestimate the umbrella academy. Yes, their skills are as lacking as their hygiene, yet somehow, they saved the world in 1963. Had they not, none of you would be standing here now."

With that Reginald left the room, leaving the sparrows thinking on their next move.

☂︎︎

While Gemini was waiting around the hotel, she received a phone call from her brother Marcus telling her to meet him down at the dinner on 5th.

So per her brother's request that's where she headed, walking in she saw her brother in a booth further back.

Walking up to him she asked, "What's this about?"

"You'll see in a minute." He replied, vaguely.

In the next 3 minutes, the doorbell rang signaling that someone else had entered the dinner.

Hearing footsteps come upon them Gemini looked up to see an umbrella academy member otherwise known as Vanya sitting on the other side of the booth.

"I'm glad we're doing this. Whatever happens between our two families, the top numbers should orchestrate it." Marcus greeted, causing Gemini and subconsciously Cleo to lift and eyebrow.

"I'm Number Seven, actually." Vanya corrected.

"Well, then somebody screwed up."

"Tell me about it." Gemini agreed.

After a moment of silence, Vanya finally spoke up again. "My brother's think you're going to come after us."

Marcus now started to intensively listen.

"I don't want a war. We've lost enough." Vanya sighed.

"Then you shouldn't have attacked us in our own house." Marcus shot back.

"Well Mark, technically we attacked them first." Gemini said, referring to Ben throwing the first punch.

Marcus sighed, taking in his sister's words.

"Look... this isn't personal, but we're the only superhero game in town. We have this place under complete control, but if your people start taking shots at us, it will give the sheep ideas."

"We won't. That's–" Vanya tried to say, but was cut off by Marcus.

"And I'm just supposed to take your word on that? For your whole family. You're not even their Number One."

"It doesn't really matter what number she is, hell I'm number zero but you don't see me bossing you around, which by the way we all know I could but I don't. So just quit yapping for a second and listen to what they have to say." Gemini scolded, letting her thick British accent come out.

Marcus got quiet for a second letting Gemini's words sink in, then looked back to Vanya.

"I just can't risk that, it's a liability. So if you came here to beg me not to make the next move..." Marcus said, while shaking his head no.

"I came here to tell you mine. Tomorrow morning, when your busloads of fans show up, I'm gonna be there on your front lawn, and I'm going to call you out for a fight, just you and me." Vanya spoke calmly.

But Gemini knew what was coming next, she could feel it – the change in Vanya's chi.

Marcus scoffed at her statement, "Why?"

"Because your team is good. Better than mine, maybe." She stated, as the light flicked throughout the dinner and the electricity crackled, catching Marcus's attention.

"But I don't think you're better than me, Marcus. I ended the world twice. And you? You're just meat in spandex, and I bet you don't want the whole world watching when I prove that to you." Vanya calmly threatened.

Taking over her body, Cleo surfaced through Gemini's body.

"I like you." she praised, sending Vanya a sly smirk.

Making the girl on the other side of the booth lightly smile.

After processing her threat Marcus spoke up.

"What do you really want, Vanya?" He asked.

"You have something I need, and I want it back."

Unbeknownst to the four, a single black crow sat on the windowsill outside of the dinner listening to the whole conversation.

☂︎︎

Flying back to its creator, Fei absorbed the bird on the rooftop of the academy.

"He's making a deal with them." Fei informed Ben, who was standing right beside her.

"I'll handle it." He said, and watched Fei walk off.

What he didn't know was that Fei intentionally left out the fact that Gemini and Cleo were also at the dinner.

Ben might have been acting leader, but that didn't mean she was going to rat out her favorite sister.

☂︎︎

Making it back to Hotel Obsidian, Gemini saw a group of the umbrella academy boys enjoying a peaceful dinner, so she knew it was finally time to make her appearance seeing as she had already met Vanya, and quite liked her to say the least.

Walking up to their table she caught the last of their chat.

"So if you ever see your other self–" Five began to say.

"Kill them." Diego stated.

"Sleep with them." Klaus suggested.

"Avoid them." Five had to correct sadly.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Luther asked, surprised at his brother's response.

"Oh come on, as if you wouldn't climb Luther Mountain." Klaus stated, actually making Luther think about it.

"I wouldn't climb Luther Mountain," said a British voice from behind the group.

Making their heads turn.

It only took a few seconds for Five to realize who she was and blink over to her while holding chopsticks to her throat.

"Put the bamboo sticks down, Robin. I come in peace." She said, raising her hands up with an appointed smile on her face.

"Give me a reason why I should let you live beyond this point." Five threatened.

For a moment Gemini didn't say anything as she felt Cleo surface.

"Because you little pipsqueak, if you don't let us go I'm going to find the nearest street lamp and hang you from it giving you the ultimate wedgie." Cleo threatened, with her red eyes blaring into his.

And in a given moment, Five actually let her go.

"I have never seen that happen before." Diego huffed

"Five is actually scared of someone." He laughed, and Five rolled his eyes.

"So if you're not here to fight then why are you here?" Five asked, looking at her suspiciously.

As Gemini took back control she grabbed a chair and brought it up to their table.

"Well if you must know, I believe all of you. I believe that in a timeline that our rightful home was once yours and that you are Dad's children." She stated simply.

"Well it's official she is the nicest sparrow we're going to get." Klaus praised.

"And you are my favorite umbrella." Gemini said back.

Which caused Five to roll his eyes again not seeing how his brother could trust the enemy so fast.

"But it goes without saying, doesn't it seem kind of rude that Dad unadopting us didn't change anything, I'm offended." Klaus stated.

"I never said that, Klaus." Five corrected.

"How are we gonna know where it changed?" Klaus asked.

"Maybe try looking for the people who birthed you, I don't know?" Gemini suggested.

"Though I don't trust her, maybe she's right." Five agreed simultaneously.

"I can be a bit of help Five, I'm not the enemy really. But Cleo might be, she doesn't really like you." Gemini shared.

Five disregarded her statement.

"Give him a minute, he takes a while to warm up to people." Klaus encouraged.

"The point is, we did it. We saved the world. We stopped the apocalypse, and made it home safe in time for dinner. So whatever Dad changed, whatever timeline we're in now we can handle it. We won." Five calmly shared, getting back on track.

But Gemini wasn't too sure about that, as the minute had passed she felt a tidal wave of darkness pass through her.

☂︎︎

Thinking about what Gemini said last night, Klaus reached down for his boat and opened up the heel to take out a piece of paper he stuffed in the sole of his shoe a long time ago.

"Old Holland Road, Pennsylvania, hmm." Klaus read aloud.

He knew exactly what he was going to do today.

☂︎︎

Going up to his family at breakfast, Viktor asked. "Where's Luther?"

"Who cares? Probably out for... a run." Diego replied.

"Love the haircut." Klaus noticed, which Viktor smiled at.

"So I, uh, talked to Marcus, Gemini and Cleo last night." Viktor stated wanting to get it out as soon a s possible.

"Wait, what? You talked to the enemy? By yourself?" Diego asked.

"Yeah well, somebody had to do something."

"Who elected you Vanya?"

"It's, uh, Viktor." He corrected.

"Who's Viktor?"

Walking up to the table, Gemini could sense Viktor's nervousness so she decided to help him out.

"He is you jackasses, and congratulations by the way." Gemini told him.

And he smiled.

"She's right, I am. It's who I've always been."

"Is that an issue for anyone?" He asked.

"Nah, I'm good with it."

"Yeah, me too. Cool."

"Truly happy for you, Viktor." Five congratulations.

"Why are you still here, first of all and second, last time I checked you don't speak for this family."

"Shut up why don't ya, and let him finish." Gemini scolded, while taking a seat.

"It's fine, okay? Marcus totally gets it, he doesn't want a war anymore than we do." Viktor assured.

"What are you talking about? He tried to homicide us!" Diego made it clear.

"So did Lila, and you had a kid with her." Klaus pointed out to Diego.

"That's not the point!"

"Just to clear the air, Marcus can't do any real damage to you. You've got absolutely nothing to worry about, Viktor made sure of that last night." Gemini stated.

"Last night, he told me he was going to give us back Five's briefcase, then we're gonna get out of the timeline. We're going to meet later today for the, uh, the handover." Viktor told his siblings.

"Oh, thank God!" Klaus worshiped.

"That's a rookie move. Dude is playing you."

"Oh, really?"

"My brother may be many things but he isn't a liar." Gemini said.

"Yeah well, maybe we can use this. And we turn it back on them, and then we wipe them the hell out." Diego suggested.

At that moment, Cleo had enough and decided to leave her head space and come out into the real world.

Materializing out of thin air, Cleo reached over the table and grabbed Diego by his collar.

"Can you shut up for one goddamn minute and let your butt hurt feelings go, you got your ass kicked now deal with it like a grown up." Cleo grumbled, and let him go. And got another chair to sit in.

Diego didn't say anything after that.

"Now you know what it feels like." Five teased.

"Don't start to think you're safe either buddy, you look like a sixty year old fisherman." Cleo shot back.

"Now that that's all cleared up, Diego you're not gonna do anything today."

"Except bond with your spawn."

"Alleged spawn." Diego corrected Klaus.

"I will get the briefcase, and then we will all go back and fix the timeline." Viktor said, laying out the plan.

"Hey, we're not going anywhere! This is a perfectly acceptable timeline." Five disagreed.

"Just when I thought, I was about to be rid of you." Cleo scuffed.

"No it's not, Allison is upstairs right now grieving over her daughter who doesn't even exist here."

"Not to mention we've been replaced by a bunch of blobs and cubes and birds and shit!"

"You've got one more time to make a sly comment about my family and you'll be the one on the other end of a knife." Cleo threatened.

"News flash, geniuses! It's not about us! Take a look around, if you hadn't noticed, there's no doomsday. There's no apocalypse, the sun is shining, the birds are doing whatever the hell birds do."

"They cawk, Five." Gemini elaborated.

"Whatever, all that matters is we're done messing with time. And I'm officially retired." Five stated, getting up to leave.

"Is he wearing aftershave? I'm concerned." Klaus asked, causing Gemini to laugh.

Cleo threatening Diego might be a regular thing throughout this series, idk yet.